The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 16
He galloped on as hard as he could, and on arriving found nine men-servants in the act of tying Queen Ingiborg to a post in the courtyard of the palace, where they intended to burn her.
Who acts: giant, act, servants · What happens: gallop, arrive, find, tie, intend, burn · To what, where: men servants, act, Queen
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, act, servants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2435:2977): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 galloped | nsubj |
| 2 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 galloped | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 hard | advmod |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADV | _ | 2 galloped | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 could | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 could | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 11 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 12 arriving | mark |
| 12 | arriving | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 found | advcl |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 galloped | conj |
| 14 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 men | nummod |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 servants | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 servants | punct |
| 17 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 found | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 act | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 act | det |
| 20 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 servants | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 tying | mark |
| 22 | tying | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 act | acl |
| 23 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 tying | obj |
| 24 | Ingiborg | Ingiborg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Queen | flat |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 post | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 post | det |
| 27 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tying | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 courtyard | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 courtyard | det |
| 30 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 post | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 palace | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 palace | det |
| 33 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 courtyard | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 intended | punct |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 intended | advmod |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 intended | nsubj |
| 37 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 courtyard | acl:relcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 burn | mark |
| 39 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 intended | xcomp |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 burn | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 galloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gallop | past | giant | hard property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrive | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | find | past | giant not said here | men servants | the act | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Topic | |||
| 4 | tie | gerund | the act not said here | Queen | to a post in the courtyard of the palace | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent queen=Patient to post=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | intend | past | servants = servant | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | burn not said to happen | to-infinitive | servants = servant not said here | Queen | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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